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Last week to the House of Representatives, where all appropriations must originate, President Hoover sent his first Budget, providing for the fiscal year 1931.* Chief figure of the Hoover budget: $3,830,445,231, the Government's estimated expenditure for next year, exclusive of a postal deficit and additional outlay for the Federal Farm Board. Comparatively, this amount is $4,304,000 greater than current actual expenditures. Said President Hoover: "Our finances are in a sound condition." He envisaged surpluses of 225 million this year, 122 million next, reiterated his tax reduction recommendation...
...routine operation of Government-8? ($300,307,860, including the cost of Congress, the U. S. courts, foreign relations, law enforcement, the postal deficit...
Died. William Walton Griest, 70. Pennsylvania Representative since 1909; at Mount Clemens, Mich.; of arthritis and pneumonia. Chairman of the House Committee on Post Offices & Post Roads, he advocated lower second-class mail rates 1? postcard rate, increased pay for postal employes...
...Over 43,840 Rural Free Delivery routes mailmen journeyed 398,444,130 miles to carry postal matter to 24,812,000 persons at a cost...
...cost $782,408,753 to carry last year's mails, of which about $560,000,000 went as pay to approximately 274,000 postal employes. For this service the public paid $696,947,577 to the Post Office Department, made up an $85,000,000 deficit indirectly through taxation. "Free mail" carried would have netted, if paid...